S1-2 old courses

Old Castlebrae S1 Course

Painting Tasks - 8 weeks
Word Processing - 13 weeks
Business Letters - 9 weeks
Databases - 8 weeks
Travel brouchure project - 5 weeks

Old Castlebrae S2 Course

Drawing Tasks - 12 weeks
Spreadsheets - 9 weeks
Graphics - 6 weeks
Communications (Internet & email) - 6 weeks
Integrated task (music world tasks 1-9) - 9 weeks

Currie S1 course

Week 1 - Using the network, passwords, saving
Weeks 2 & 3 - Logging onto internet, searching the web
Weeks 4 & 5 - Sending email, reply, delete, attachments
Week 6 - Word Processing
Week 7 - WP - return, shift, punctuation, saving, spellcheck
Week 8 - WP - inserting graphics
Week 9 - WP - finishing task
Weeks 10 & 11 - Computer Systems - Input, Output, Storage, Processor
Week 12 - Databases - whodunnit
Week 13 - Databases - finish whodunnit
Week 14 - revision and online test/quiz

Currie S2 course

Week 1 - Revision and network use, saving, passwords
Week 2 - Drawing - Sunshine tours, polygon tool, Football strip, rotate, scale, group
Week 3 - Accident plan or recreation ground (?!?)
Week 4 - Painting - Sunshine tours, lightening, darkening, tinting, differences between draw and paint
Weeks 5, 6, 7 - Spreadsheets - Simple formula and functions
Week 8 - Computer Systems - revise IPO, hardware - ROM, RAM, networks, byte, KB, MB, GB
Week 9 - OS, File handling (clean up network folder), HCI
Week 10 - Revision
Week 11 - Online test
Week 12 - Databases - advantages, field types, create database (import prepared data)
Week 13 - Databases - Searching and sorting, new layouts
Week 14 - Core Skills Assessment
Weeks 15 & 16 - Multimedia - create own website using Powerpoint wizard, enter text and graphics and sounds
Week 17 - Finish website, ext. work - usescanner, camera or microphone
Week 18 - Programming - simple VB hello world program, customise interface
Week 19 - Programming - Make scribble program with buttons to change colour
Week 20

Firrhill S1 course

Word Processing
Graphics - drawing
Databases
Internet
Desktop Publishing